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Friday, July 6, 2012

Indonesia: Urban Geography

Indonesia

An Urban Geography Profile

Largest City: Jakarta

Rank Size Rule Population Estimate: 9,751,937

Actual Population: 9,751,937

2nd Largest City: Surabaya

Rank Size Rule Population Estimate: 4,875,969

Actual Population: 2,814,867

3rd Largest City: Bekasi

Rank Size Rule Population Estimate: 3,250,646

Actual Population: 2,581,539

4th Largest City: Bandung

Rank Size Rule Population Estimate: 2,437,984

Actual Population: 2,488,390

5th Largest City: Medan

Rank Size Rule Population Estimate: 1,950,387

Actual Population: 2,162,805

To what extent is the Rank Size Rule shown to be valid or invalid based upon the population information for your country?

The Rank Size Rule suggests that the 2nd largest city in a country will be about half the size of the population of the country's largest city, the 3rd largest city will be about 1/3 the size of the largest city, so on and so forth such that the N largest city would be 1/N the size of the largest city's population. The actual populations for Indonesia's 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th largest cities are much closer together than they should be according to the estimates of the Rank Size Rule. There is little, if any evidence, would could be used to support a claim that the Rank Size Rule is valid for Indonesia. Jakarta's situation is better defined as a primate city due to being disproportionately larger than other cities (proportion as suggested by the Rank Size Rule).

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